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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs phi-3-mini 3.8B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); phi-3-mini 3.8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

60.5

Rank #10 Confirmed

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 and phi-3-mini 3.8B specifications
Claude Sonnet 5.5phi-3-mini 3.8B
ProviderAnthropicMicrosoft
Noometry Index60.5—
Released2026-09-28—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked161

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5phi-3-mini 3.8B
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1699—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
ALE-Bench1,819—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5phi-3-mini 3.8B
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5phi-3-mini 3.8B
CritPt31.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—117.23

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5phi-3-mini 3.8B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5phi-3-mini 3.8B
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5), phi-3-mini 3.8B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5phi-3-mini 3.8B
Furniture Assembly75%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than phi-3-mini 3.8B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); phi-3-mini 3.8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and phi-3-mini 3.8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-mini 3.8B has 1.

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